Knowledge Development and Social Change through Technology:Emerging Studies

摘要

This work is a collection of papers on applications and advances for encouraging research on social change and growth at the organisational level. The 20 studies look at specific areas of technology designs for social environments (workplace, home and externally) and examine key issues in combining the use of information and communication technologies with the effective and humanistic use of people in the work environment. The introductory paper by the Coakes reviews articles published from 1968 to 2008 on the application of socio-technology in the study of technology in society, and the way it governs organisations and systems. This same theme is dealt with in two subsequent studies, one looks at how knowledge management (KM) is introduced via a lessons-learned programme, and the other in creating socially aware designs for non-goals, clean design and anti-usability.